Attitudes towards transfers of human tissue samples across borders: An international survey of researchers and policy makers in five countries

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Xinqing ^a   Matsui, Kenji ^b,c   Krohmal, Benjamin ^g   Zeid, Alaa Abou ^d   Muthuswamy, Vasantha ^e   Koo, Young Mo ^f   Kita, Yoshikuni ^c   Lie, Reidar K ^g,h  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^f University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHINA; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EGYPT; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATENT; PERSONNEL; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUTH KOREA; STANDARD; STATISTICS; WRITING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; AUTHORSHIP; CHINA; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EGYPT; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INDIA; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 77956565884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-11-16     Document Type: Article

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